Stitching the Beginning

There’s something quietly powerful about sewing a quilt.

Pieces gathered from different places. Fabrics with their own histories. Nothing rushed. Nothing wasted. Just hands moving slowly, stitching one layer to the next, trusting that over time it will become something that holds warmth, memory, and care.

That’s how Sticks and Stones Farm began.

When we became stewards of the historic Book Farm on Bainbridge Island, we didn’t set out with a perfectly mapped plan. We started by listening…to the land, to the stories held here, to each other and our kids and to what felt possible for us to create. Like quilting, the work unfolded piece by piece: stone and soil, family and craft, imagination and responsibility.

This place has long been shaped by makers: shipwrights, woodworkers, families who built with intention and lived close to the land. Our hope is to continue that lineage in our own way, working slowly, building thoughtfully, and allowing creativity and daily life to exist side by side.

This blog will be a place to share that process. The making. The learning. The small moments that don’t always fit neatly anywhere else. Sometimes it will be about stone or landscape projects. Sometimes about life on the farm. Sometimes about the quiet beauty of working with your hands and letting something take shape over time.

For now, we’re grateful you’re here…at the beginning, with us.